OKLAHOMA CITY, (KOKH) — Attorney General Gentner Drummond expressed his disappointment on Monday following Gov. Stitt’s veto of a legal process Senate Bill.
SB1089 would have corrected a legal process gap that currently allows dangerous individuals to be released from state custody without a hearing.
“The Governor’s veto, I fear, reflects his continued lack of understanding regarding the issue of competency,” said Drummond. “When individuals who have committed violent acts have never been adjudicated because they’ve been deemed incompetent, it is inappropriate at best and dangerous at worst for these sorts of decisions to be determined solely by clinicians. Public safety hangs in the balance, which makes this veto so concerning.”…